New trends, activities keep traditional Qixi Festival alive and well
Dedicated to romance How can art and culture from the past survive in a globalized world? Inheriting the treasure of art and culture from the past thousands of years, young…
Enthusiasm for learning Chinese rises in Thailand as Chinese replaces Japanese as second-largest foreign language
Ni Hao (Hello), welcome to Thailand!" Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech, a "senior student" at the Confucius Institute of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, greets visiting journalist from the Global Times in Chinese. This…
Christopher Nolan thrilled fans in Beijing, igniting social media frenzy
Hollywood luminary Christopher Nolan set hearts racing at the premiere of his much-anticipated blockbuster Oppenheimer, held at Beijing's Universal Studios on Tuesday. The event marked a significant milestone as Nolan became…
Border issues are not the entirety of China-India relations
On Tuesday evening, the joint press release of the 19th round of China-India Corps Commander Level Meeting was released. As I had anticipated, the border standoff since June, 2020 has…
Xi starts South Africa visit, ‘to leverage cooperation with continent’
Global South seeks to address challenges in cooperation approach, not to confront Amid high global attention and expectations, Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing for Johannesburg on Monday for a…
Kishida plans to start contaminated water dumping as early as Thu
Tokyo's push ‘serious breach of trust’ despite unchanged opposition of Japanese fishery group The leader of a Japanese fishery industry group said they would continue to oppose the dumping of…
Philippines to skip US-Japan-Australia joint drills in South China Sea
Logistical limitations could be ‘an excuse for Manila to seek a balance among powers’ The Philippines will reportedly not participate in a US-Japan-Australia joint exercise in the South China Sea…
US and Western countries could have met the ‘BRICS’ halfway
The 15th BRICS Summit will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 22 to 24. This marks the first in-person summit of the BRICS nations since the outbreak of…
BRICS set to deepen financial cooperation, seeking to reduce reliance on US dollar in upcoming summit
Irreversible trend for more economies to shift away from US dollar: experts The member states of the BRICS, the emerging market group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa,…
China Coast Guard warns trespassing Philippine vessels off Ren’ai Jiao, allows humanitarian supply
China Coast Guard (CCG) on Tuesday restricted Philippine vessels trespassing into waters near China's Ren'ai Jiao (also Ren'ai Reef) in the South China Sea but under humanitarian consideration, temporarily allowed…